If I were running a campaign that had been consistently described as flat and undynamic, I think I might have made a different choice in running partners. Moral rectitude is fine and all, but couldn’t Gore have found someone a little jazzier to compete with the Bush/Cheney ticket? Um, and, like, maybe someone from the west coast or at least the midwest where things are a little more hotly contested than New England? Looks like we may have to get used to hearing the term “President Bush” again.
Oh well, at least we get to be the ones with the “Don’t blame me” bumper stickers for the next four years.
Actually, this may not be such a bad thing. I think queer politics has floundered these past eight years because of Clinton: we haven’t felt any pressure to get out there and push for things because we’ve got someone in the White House who’s on our side. At least Dubya will give us someone to villify, to work against. ‘Cause we all know that big GOP tent he keeps talkin’ about doesn’t have much room for homos.
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